For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America.
But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories?As we forge ahead as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a Generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ou. --B-24 navigatorBy the end of 2018, fewer than 400,000 WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform.
He made his only mission with a crew of strangers.
It was his first and last mission.
He was an 18-year old Jewish kid named Henry Vogelstein from Brooklyn.
The thing that haunts me is that I can\'t put a face to the guy who was a replacement.
The next mission, the entire crew was killed.
He rescues and resurrects firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
Here are the Stories that the magazine could not tell, from a vanishing Generation speaking to America today.-- I was in the hospital with a flak wound.
Seventy years later, a history teacher tracks down the veterans with a connection to Hometown, USA who fought the war in the air over Europe, men who were tempered in the tough times of the Great Depression and forged in battle.
How do you think you feel when you find out you killed your mother? --B-24 bombardierAt the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front.
You know? I didn\'t even think about that.
I didn\'t explain to her the fact that \'missing in action\' is not necessarily \'killed in action\'.
I had a lot of trouble reconciling how my mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage] from the telegram she opened, saying I was shot down and] missing in action.
That is understandable, given what they saw.-- I spent a lot of time in hospitals.
Or perhaps, we were never told. --B-24 bombardier THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IN THE BEST SELLING \'The Things Our Fathers Saw\' SERIES How soon we forget.
He never got out of that ball turret; he died in that ball turret.
But he had lost control of the fear.
He\'s dead now.
I guess he was right.
My ball turret gunner--he couldn\'t take it anymore...
You were scared stiff, but it was controlled.
Being forgotten is.-- You flew with what I would call \'controlled fear\'.
But dying for freedom isn\'t the worst that could happen.
For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America
